Stuck in traffic and running out of gas, an Upstate New York mom traveling with her daughters found herself in a desperate situation during heavy snowfall last week.

Jessica Myers was in Pennsylvania, heading to Fort Drum, NY, on Interstate 81 when traffic was shut down on Friday, WBNG-TV reported. When traffic started moving after four and a half hours, state troopers directed all travelers off the Interstate into the town of Gibson, PA.

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"There was only one hotel for the entire town, and all of the rooms were full. They couldn't fit anybody else," Myers told WBNG.

Myers ended up in the parking lot of a McDonalds where she was preparing to spend the night when store manager Mykela Huber saw her vehicle.

"I saw the mom get out and I was like everything okay?" Huber recounted. "She was like, 'oh my daughter's are in the car they've been in the car for 8 hours now.'"

"We set up cardboard boxes on the floor so it was kind of like a sleepover, and we were just telling the girls different stories, trying to keep them calm 'cause it was dark in here," Huber said.

Myers was profoundly grateful.

"To just see somebody who would go so far out of their way and inconvenience themselves and give to my kids, instead of making themselves more comfortable. It was just a heartwarming experience," the mom told the station.

Myers expanded on the story in her own post on Facebook (above), and thanked the five employees who helped her family by name.

"They gave each of my children their own flashlight so they wouldn’t get scared through the night. They even went so far as making a bed out of cardboard boxes so the girls would not need to sleep on the floor. They had a few blankets and let my children use them so they would be able to get some sleep."